Kendra Ross co-founded distribution company Duo with Jackie Hatchwell 16 years ago. If an IT company founded by two women wasn&#8217;t already enough of a rarity in the industry, the distributor has the added particularity of remaining a female-only business, now with five staff and after 16 years in business.

Jade Software has launched an international security company this month to provide specialist technology to police forces and agencies around the world. According to Jade the new venture, the Wynyard Group, is the result of over two years of investment in designing specialist technology solutions which are now being marketed worldwide.

HP has confirmed that it will merge its PC and printing divisions into a single business unit but a local spokesperson says it is too early to &#8220;speculate on local details&#8221; and on what this means for the New Zealand market.

Videoconferencing resellers should be targeting the SMB market as VC solutions become more and more affordable and the Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) rollout gets underway, says Vaughan Nankivell, ANZ business manager for the Huawei Enterprise division of Simms, soon to be rebranded as Expressonline.

Phil Goodin has a busy year ahead now that he has been promoted to general manager of New Zealand-owned technology lease provider Equico, after sixteen months with the company as heads of sales and marketing.

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